Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nationalism always comes before politics, and a Communist in CRS thinks a French communist is all wet, but he's going to turn brown when DeGaulle starts sending the opposition to the guillotine. Taber is another one who went through Europe like butter through a tin horn and started blowing off about how content and happy everyone was and how they all had sufficient to eat, whilst he warmed the cushion of a bar stool in an officers' club in Germany. You can't go around telling everybody that John Taber represents some people sitting around a cracker barrel...
...just cycled up from Mocacha with Yaroslav Bohancs after an exhausting afternoon in the grottos where political prisoners are held, sitting on the cold, wet points of stalactites...
...wet in a dry state, but he won the election by two to one. In Congress, he plumped for an import tax on copper, fought against Boulder Dam because he thought it discriminated against Arizona water interests. He won his reputation as a determined foe of Government spending. A nominal Democrat, he often hurdled party lines to vote with the G.O.P., tangled violently with tough old Speaker Jack Garner...
...Pasteur Institute, where he asked photographers not to take pictures, he went down into an underground chapel, placed six red roses on the black marble tomb of Louis Pasteur. Then he knelt, his face in his hands, for three silent minutes. When he emerged his cheeks were wet with tears...
...About Town is more than a complex piece of Clair irony. It is also a simple hymn to Paris. In the opening shot of the film, the camera kisses the cool, wet cobblestones of an alley. The screen is full of tender glances at rust-crusted sinks, at the lovelight in the eyes of streetlamps, at tired mustaches, at a street fiddler's tobacco-stained teeth, and at lovely women who (in a travesty of nostalgia) all look alike...